What I'm looking for, is recommendations for the nastiest combination of components and skills you can apply to a Fighter, and the same for application to a Shuttle, particularly the Toron shuttle or the To'Duj fighter.

How sick can you get with these? How much DPS/Survivability can you manage to squeeze out of such a limited frame? What BOFF power (ensign only, it seems) really can become OP on one of these in the right hands? (fwiw, paystore consoles included.)

I had a play with shuttles and fighters a while back, and ended up deciding that the best all-rounders were the Rozhenko/Aeon Timeships. This is due to inherent 'Sensor Analysis' and 2x BOFF slots - one Sci, one Universal (the ability of the Fighters to use DHCs pales in comparison to the extra BOFF slot)